Do you have any skills or expertise that would amaze others?

[cMckay]

I have a very good, I'd say phenomenal, memory since the very childhood - I can memorize all phone numbers, addresses and other information alike without writing it down, I remember all people's names, I can easily learn a poem by heart... and oh, I am writing poetry as well, people say it's pretty good, but for me it's just a hobby.

__________
avi player

 

[Alex_Sanders]

I did diving when I was in college to try to break my fear of smashing my head off things (as an aside to using swimming as cross training for my other sports). I can manage a two and a half front flip off the 3 meter, double back off the 1 meter.

I've won a few beginner Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitions.

I can do a great redneck/hick impression.

Oh la di da, I can do that too, and I ain't even from the bahble belt.

It even less impressive if your actually from nebraska or idaho or sum' places like tha.

 

[Alex_Sanders]

I have a very good, I'd say phenomenal, memory since the very childhood - I can memorize all phone numbers, addresses and other information alike without writing it down, I remember all people's names, I can easily learn a poem by heart... and oh, I am writing poetry as well, people say it's pretty good, but for me it's just a hobby.

__________
avi player

Really? Take a look at mine!

I have a kitty named snowball,
she died she died!
Mom said she was sleeping,
she lied! she lied!


Whadda you think?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

OK, I've learned it by heart. Now what?

 

[Danger]

Whadda you think?

Uhhh... that's not a poem. The spelling, tenses, metre, syntax and grammar are all over the map. It's cute, but it's not literature.

 

[Alex_Sanders]

Uhhh... that's not a poem. The spelling, tenses, metre, syntax and grammar are all over the map. It's cute, but it's not literature.

What were you saying? Peoms are not to have grammars? Peoms are supposed to being peoms, not bounded by the grammatic boundray and boldly squaking beyond where no poets had gone!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Uhhh... that's not a poem. The spelling, tenses, metre, syntax and grammar are all over the map. It's cute, but it's not literature.

By E. E. Cummings, considered one of the great literary poets of the 20th Century:

because i love you)last night

clothed in sealace
appeared to me
your mind drifting
with chuckling rubbish
of pearl weed coral and stones;

lifted,and(before my
eyes sinking)inward,fled;softly
your face smile breasts gargled
by death:drowned only

again carefully through deepness to rise
these your wrists
thighs feet hands

poising
to again utterly disappear;
rushing gently swiftly creeping
through my dreams last
night,all of your
body with its spirit floated
(clothed only in

the tide's acute weaving murmur

 

[Danger]

Zoob, that... thing that you posted is unreadable.
By the bye, I think that you are just about the only person that I've encountered who capitalizes his name.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Zoob, that... thing that you posted is unreadable.

i know) the question is

shards of memory
jumbled glimpses
fast jotted on the back of his eyes
scribbled in sharp blurred line

is it a poem)this grasped for;snatched at
moment rushed by, through?
clawing at the present he
scratches it, and
the page isflecked with red constellations
of now-blood) but
is it a poem

critics ovated the unconscious stream
the raw pre-poem cumming
out or glued mosaic on sense nonsense

because it was the same poetry without the
lying mask of reason
the same insane, unmedicated;
no tuxedo straightjacketed grammar
tense without tense)lunatic meter